The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-30
AN AMERICAN GIRL
WHO MADE A PARIS LAWYER DANCE
TO A LIVELY TUNE.


His Fair Ciient-A Big Price to Pay
for Poetic Correspondence-Ths Gil
max
An American girl has set all the tongues
wagging with the repetition Of the story
Of her adventure with Paris lawyer. As
the story has gone from one club to an
other about the city her wealth has grown
TO Immense proportions and her beauty To
the excellence of poetic idealism- she Is
probably not as rich as her admirers pro-
fess to believe, but she is rich enough To
have law suits; il it were not for that the
story might not exist. And as to her
beauty, it has been all sufficient to capti-
vate many "a Frenchman, and among the
crowd of devotees was, until recently, her
counsel
This learned doctor of the laws, under
the inspiration of his fair clients presence,
became n poet. 1t is not certainly known
that he ever practiced verse before meet
ing her. but if he had not he speedily
acquainted himself with the rules of
prosody, with classic forms, with the
works of amorous authors, and then
plunge,. headlong into Alexandrines, hex
ameters, pentameters, neutrality-suspicious.,
archaic and all the other aics known to
ancient and modern poetry. The gifts OF
his muse he lavished upon his American
client. In the lyric enthusiasm OF his pas
sion he consigned the rhythms TO stamped
paper. His attentions were offensive to
the young lady from the start, and she
was not at all backward in signifying that
~ her counsel, but he persisted in his de-
votiOn and in its passionate manlfesta-
tons Twas all in vain; he could make
no impression of n tender character upon
the obdurate American heart Then he
gave it up discouraged and felt somewhat
of a revolt from his recent madness.
MAKING A LAWYER DANCE
In this frame of mind it occurred to him
that those verses would be much better in
his hands than in the possession of one
who had attained "a violent dislike to him.
The more he thought about it the more
desirable IL seemed to rescue those bits OF
stamped paper from the hands of the dis
dainful belle. He made overtures for
their return. The young lady then took
u strong fancy TO them and declined to
give them up. The lawyer getting ner-
vous attempted direct negotiations. She
was stubborn, but in the course of the
proceedings she came To his office to close
up affairs Of her own. and while there the
counsel renewed his appeals for the poetic
correspondence. His antagonist was per
suaded to name price for the letters
She modestly set the figure at TO- 900 louis.
1t was appalling; could not be thought of;
a'm'selle must relent.
She did relent To the extent of receiving
some amusement and entertainment from
the lawyer for the verses. She would re-
quire but little. He eagerly begged to
know what the amusement should be.
She told him she was ineXpressibly desr
Gus OF seeing him dance. But not herei
oh, yes, right here, in the Office before the
clerks, IL they should choose to look on.
Horrible! II was worse than the canni-
a a.
American savages. But it cost less on the
whole than 10000 louis. So the poor
lawyer danced. For fully five minutes
she kept him hopping, waltzing, shuffiing
and kicking. The clerks were scandalized
and the lady yasSy amused. When she
had laughed sufficiently the attorney
humbly asked for the verses. Oh, no,
not yet; the bill was not complete. A
dance worth 10 600 louis , Not at all Ii
would now be the pleasure of the fair tor
turer to hear the lawyer sing The wsrm
will turn, and this was the climax of in
dignity. The attorney would dance, but
he would not descend to singing for any
money The result was that the verses
were surrendered in exchange for check
for 10. 900 louis, and the cruel American
withdrew.-Paris Cor Globe Democrat.
The Demand for Chri.tmas Cards
Il lost big money ON Christmas and
New Years carts, said u dealer ON
Broadway To u reporter. The demand
does not seem to exist for them as In
years gone by. The rising generation is
becoming So nsthetical il il very hard TO
cater to their dilettanteism They seem
10 suffer, it were, from the safety of
over refinement and culture; hence the
utter iupossibilty To please them. I i'm
ported n lot of cards from England.
thought they would be admired and be-
como popular. Well. | am out several
thousand dollars and have been taught a
1esso i had some cards hand painted
and they were really works of art.
IA young man >auuterc1 in few days
before Christmas and asked To see some
hand painted cards. showed him some
hand painted ones, and this il how he
questioned me; Yes, YOU say they are
hand puintet, Yes, at great expense ,
/ replied Who was the artist he asked
putting an eyeglass To his left eye and
looking first at me and then at the card
Well several artists who are skilled in
that special kind of work. You don I
say; not BoIguereau, Gerome, Munkacsy
or any OF those chaps, ehs' No, the artist
was an as, | replied hotly as the young
man, smiling blandly at my anger, de-
parted. lie Is but IA sample of many
Others Presents this Christmas mostly
consisted of rare books or articles of vertu.
The.cheap cards and the expensive cards
were purchased generally by the very
young misses and boys. In future the
designs Of Christmas and View Year :
cards will have to be made especially u
suit the taste of the very youthful The
Young men have advanced 50 rapidly they
require something that is on higher art
plan than the usual Christmas cards. =
New York Mail and Express.
Autographs of Scott
Two autograph letters of Sir Walter